I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
—Anne Sullivan Macy
Topics: Obedience
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
—Anne Sullivan Macy
Topics: Failure, Achieving
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
—Anne Sullivan Macy
Topics: Education
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
—Anne Sullivan Macy
Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
—Anne Sullivan Macy
Topics: Parents, Parenting
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Horace Mann American Educator
- Mortimer J. Adler American Philosopher, Educator
- Frank Moore Colby American Writer, Editor
- Robert Maynard Hutchins American Educator
- Booker T. Washington African-American Educationist
- Robert H. Shaffer American Educator
- Laurence J. Peter Canadian-born American Educator
- E. Merrill Root American Educator
- Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney American Educator
- Arthur Sherburne Hardy American Engineer
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